Sentence examples for disputed zone from inspiring English sources

The agreement allowed for offshore licensing in the previously disputed zone, and energy groups are beginning to cooperate there — including a recently announced joint venture between Rosneft and Statoil.

The stretch contained within the "lozenge" was the subject of this tussle, and the solution proffered was similar to the one used for the disputed zone south of Kuwait City.

The disputed zone includes a hill called Gabla, or Ras Doumeira, and a small island called Doumeira, deserted except for the occasional fishermen who use it as a pit stop.

But when Georgians found 160 helicopter-borne missiles in a Russian convoy described by Moscow as "spare parts" for its garrison the propaganda value of the find (and of Moscow's blustering) was well exploited.What Georgia most wants to do now is control the mouth of the tunnel which leads from the Caucasus mountains (and the Russian region of North Ossetia) to the disputed zone.

The disputed zone on the eastern margin of the district where I had lived for 45 years was no longer part of a shabby post-industrial reality: it was a CGI fiction so seductive that it became the only acceptable description of a place many thought they knew, but few, after the circus moved on, chose to experience.

If Lebanon offers to take bids on blocks that fall within the disputed zone, "it could seem aggressive to Israel and international parties," Mr. Takieddine said.

Once there, I was struck by the tentative nature of civilisation in these often disputed zones, where the natural consequences of global capitalism were the exploitation of resources and the displacement of local populations.

The "problems" include control of "disputed zones," notably oil-rich Kirkuk, which is claimed by both the Kurds and Iraq's Arabs.

Gaillard was designed to reaffirm Angevin authority in a fiercely disputed conflict zone and the keep, although militarily impressive, contained only an anteroom and a royal audience chamber, and was built on soft chalk and without an internal well, both serious defects from a defensive perspective.

Throughout this social revolution, Greene, the NUR and the other rail unions were hardly ever out of the dispute zone, mostly over pay and conditions.

Tracing them across the globe, we find enclaves and exclaves, disputed and neutral zones, improbably straight and impossibly jagged borders, deadly borders born in war and old ones almost faded into irrelevance.